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Episode 50: Turning 50 with Norah Gaughan

Episode 50: Turning 50 with Norah Gaughan (30:45)

In this episode, we are very excited to talk with knitting designer superstar, Norah Gaughan. Author of Knitting Nature and design director of Berroco, she has her hands full, so thank you, Norah, for taking the time to share this podcast with us!

• Norah Gaughan Volume 1
• Norah Gaughan Volume 2
• Knitting Nature
• Tilted Duster
• The wrap front pullover from Vogue 2005 (ravelry link)

Thanks to everyone who entered the House that Yarn Built contest! Hurrah for knitters making the world better. Thanks also to everyone who donated prizes. Congratulations to Meagan Smith- you won the Stitches prize pack! Congratulations as well to Grace Lee and Julie Lenhart- you'll be getting a surprise in the mail very soon...

Thanks for listening! We'll be taking a break, but we'll be back before you know it!

Music:

Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney
Why Do You Let Me Stay Here - She & Him
Spark - The Bird & The Bee

Episode 49: Knitting in Place

Episode 49: Knitting in Place (31:40)

Knitting Slumps

• Knitty
• Oblique by Veronik Avery
• two finished pairs of socks!
• Pigeonroof Studios yarn
• cabled and lace shawl- frogged!
• slogging through the wips on Ravelry
• Arucania nature cotton on sale at WEBS
• smooshy sock yarn and the BSJ
• Baywood yarns
• Shelridge
• Have you ever gone through a knitting slump? How long did it last? What brought you out of it?

Colorwork

• Marin Fiber Arts
• Lucy Neatby
• Kristin Knits by Kristin Nicholas

Music:

• Dig Me Out: Sleater Kinney
• Kuyenzera: Cosmas Magaya
• New Life: Numbers

We're Late!

Hey all,

Sorry the podcast isn't up yet! It's going to be a day late this week- hopefully late tonight or early tomorrow morning. Thanks for your patience!

Episode 48: Once more at Stitches

Episode 48: Once More at Stitches (41:00)

This week we bring you the last of our Stitches interviews. We talk to some local ladies and the women behind one of our favorites, Mountain Colors.

Kristine of A Verb for Keeping Warm

Maia and Brooke of Tactile Fiber Arts and Sincere Sheep
Our interview come to a close when Nicole channels the Sleep Train.

Diana McKay & Leslie Taylor of Mountain Colors
Nicole's Mountain Goat Scarf pictured above.

Julie Weisenberger of Cocoknits
Knitter's Block (in action above!)

Yay! Lisa and Rod Souza! Yay! Buffy and Don Taylor!

Remember to donate to the House that Yarn Built, let us know in an email with the subject heading: The House that Yarn Built and get a chance to win some yarn.

Music:
Dig Me Out: Sleater Kinney
The Regrettable Consequences: Continental

Episode 47: In Stitches

Episode 47: In Stitches (37:42)

Stitches: Part the FIrst
This week we report back on our Stitches adventures. We buy yarn and talk to Maggie Pace, the guys from YKnit, Joanne, Amanda, and Michelle of Toots Le Blanc.

Our purchases (many pictured above):

Nicole

• Kit for Big Snugs
• 50 Merino/50 Silk from A Verb for Keeping Warm
• Lisa Souza Fat Bunnies
• Northampton & Colrain Laceweight
• Norah Gaughan books
• Candy sweater & Malabrigo from Article Pract
• Shelridge Farms Ultra Soft DKW yarn for Nordic Memories
• Toots LeBlanc Celtic Bunny hat pattern & Angora/Merino yarn
• Knitter's Block

Jenny

• 50 Merino/50 Silk Verb for Keeping Warm
• A couple of lovelies from Tactile Fiber Arts
• Lisa Souza handspun & a little more handspun
• Norah Gaughan books
• Toots Le Blanc Jacob/Alpaca for a sweater
• Brooks Farm Riata
• W4 in Butterscotch

Prize yarn

• Tactile Fiber Arts Handspun
• Alpaca/Silk from a Verb For Keeping Warm
• Solo Silk from Brooks Farm
• Socks that Rock in Jailhouse Rock (in the center)
• Two skeins of (not Manos) Malabrigo for the Malabrigo Loafers
• Fat Bunny

Felting Forward: Maggie Pace of Pick-up Sticks
Felt Forward
Keep Your Eye Out for the Ripple Tote & Snuglets! We saw them and they are very cute!

WonderMike & Hizknits Stephen of YKnit

Joanne Spetz of Baywood Yarns took a class with Cat Bordhi & bought some yarn! You can get her yarn from Nine Rubies.

Amanda, daughter of Raveler JocelynG, talks about her career as a knitting demonstrator at the Nine Rubies booth.

Toots LeBlanc: It's in the family

Remember to donate to the House that Yarn Built, let us know in an email with the subject heading: The House that Yarn Built and get a chance to win some yarn.

Music:

DIg Me Out: Sleater Kinney
It was a beautiful car: M. Ward
Boy with a Coin: Iron and WIne